Railways by Private Enterprise
THE Goulbnrn to Crookwell is the first private undertaking of the kind, and presents some novel and promising features. It is to pass through some…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1893
72 stories in Southern Highlands's papers · page 2 of 4
The Gib Stone. Railway Freight
THE council is endeavouring to keep the work in Bowral. At a special meeting of the council held on Tuesday evening the clerk was instructed to communicate with…
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ON Thursday morning a deputation from the Robertson Railway League and a portion of the Myra ValeProgress Committee, accompanied by Mr. j. Kidd, M.L.A., and Mr. McCourt, M.L.A., waited on the…
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On Thursday last a deputation from the Robertson Railway League and a portion of the Myra Vale Progress Committee, accompanied by Hon J. Kidd, M.L.A., and Mr. M'Court, M.L.A., waited on the…
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The persistent but ineffi[?]tive efforts of the Railway Commissioners in Victoria to stop the pilfering habits of their railway men are becoming pathetic, and the department is at…
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Mr. P. F. Hart has been complaining of the state of the Full's road where it passes his residence. The engineer (Mr. V. J. S. Blomfield) has made the following report…
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"WILL HONEYCOMB," in the Dubbo Dispatch, tells the following story:—The other day a tramp made his appearance at the front door of a suburban residence, and rang the bell as violently as if he were a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. P. F. Hart in Reply to the District Road Engineer's Report on the Fitzroy Falls Road
We have received a letter from Mr. P. F. Hart in which he says:—"Sir.—In your last Wednesday's issue was a report from the District Road Engineer upon the above…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →That Robertson Railway. (To the Editor of the Scrutineer)
Sir,—The reply of Mr. Lyne to the deputation that waited upon him to urge that the proposed line of railway from Bowral to Robertson should be referred to the Public Works Committee was, in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Compensation Case. BEER V. Railway Commissioners of New South Wales
CLAIMED, £3484 6s 5d; OFFERED, £735 5s 10d. BEFORE Mr. Justice Stephen and a jury of four in the No. 2 Jury Court, Sydney.—Tuesday, June 6, 1893…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Bowral Land Claim. BEER V. Railway Commissioners of New South Wales
Mr. Bruce Smith and Mr. Field, instructed by Messrs. Dean and Denn, appeared for the plaintiff; and Sir Julian Salomons, Q.C., Mr. C. B. Stephen, and Mr. G. H. Simpson,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Selected Poetry. the Tailor-made Railway Man
My friends will forgive, and think me not rude, If remarks on your customs or manners intrude: But I'm sadly perplexed when I carefully sean The "pants" and the coat of a railway man…
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THESE have at the present time "to sail o'er boisterous seas" so to speak, though they may have straight steel rails beneath them in another sense. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Road versus Rail. the Railway Commissioners Make a Concession
As a consequence presumably of the publicity which has been given to the fact that one of the carrying firms here has been successfully competing with the railway in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Letters to the Editor. Road Metalling
SIR,—I see from your issue of Wednesday, 26th instant, a very lengthy letter from His Worship the Mayor (J. J. Campbell) in reply to J. L. Campbell. I wish to refer to one statement contained in same…
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A fatal Occident betel a tram guard named Nicholas William Maffey on Monday night. He was run over by a tram in George-street West, and decapitated. Maffey was assistant guard on a tram…
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A contract for the erection of a new iron railway bridge at Indooroopilly. The contractors are M'Cormack and Son, of Victoria, and formerly of Mose Vale, for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →N.S.W. Railways
From the report of the Railway Commissioners for the year ended 30th June it is evident that they have laboured successfully to counteract the serious loss of gross…
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Two or three friends and myself left Whitehaven about three years ago, taking the L. and N.W. train for Ravenrglass. Arrived there, we crossed the metals and…
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MR. A. STEPHENS is already collecting the necessary timber for the footbridge in Bong Bong-street, and the hearts of the cits will leap for joy in time of flood to…
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